biography
pronunciation:
[oodet]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1941)
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| biography:
| German airman, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. He was a leading German air ace in World War 1, and from 1935 worked in the German air ministry. A Luftwaffe quartermaster-general in World War 2, having fallen foul of the Gestapo, he committed suicide by crashing his aircraft. The authorities described his death as an accident while testing a new air weapon. Zuckmayer's play, The Devil's General, is based on his life. |
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